Abstract Participation in sports clubs is often ascribed with the ability to promote social integration of people with disabilities, since it can provide a platform for creating social networks and friendships. However, integration is not reached automatically, and it is strongly reliant on specific factors and conditions. Therefore, this study compares the degree of social integration of members with and without disabilities and analyses individual and structural factors relevant for social integration of members with disabilities. Social integration is conceptualised as a multidimensional concept and focuses on socio-cultural and socio-affective (interaction, identification) dimensions. Statistical regression analyses were conducted using data from 13,082 members (N = 1482 of that reported at least one disability) in 642 sports clubs in ten European countries. The results show that members with disabilities are integrated to the same extent as members without disabilities, and the degree of social integration seems to be more reliant on individual factors than on structural factors of sports clubs. Affiliation and participation in a club (volunteering, participation in competitive sport, long-term membership, frequency of sports participation, team/group size) are relevant for social integration. Furthermore, the setting matters, as members with disabilities practising in both settings, only with people with disabilities as well as together with members without disabilities, are slightly better integrated regarding the ‘interaction’-dimension than those practising in a separate setting only.

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体育俱乐部作为融合残疾人的媒介

摘要 参加体育俱乐部通常被认为具有促进残疾人融入社会的能力，因为它可以提供建立社交网络和友谊的平台。然而，整合不是自动实现的，它强烈依赖于特定的因素和条件。因此，本研究比较了残疾成员和非残疾成员的社会融合程度，并分析了与残疾成员社会融合相关的个体和结构因素。社会整合被概念化为一个多维概念，侧重于社会文化和社会情感（互动、认同）维度。使用来自 13、在 10 个欧洲国家的 642 个体育俱乐部中，有 082 名成员（其中 N = 1482 报告至少一种残疾）。结果表明，残疾成员与非残疾成员的融合程度相同，社会融合程度似乎更依赖于个体因素而不是体育俱乐部的结构因素。加入俱乐部和参加俱乐部（志愿服务、参加竞技体育、长期会员资格、运动参与频率、团队/团体规模）与社会融合相关。此外，环境很重要，因为在这两种环境中练习的残疾成员，仅与残疾人以及与非残疾成员一起练习，在“交互”维度方面比仅在单独的环境中练习的人要好一点。